Mick Barry (Cork North Central, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

We are one year on now. Survivors deserve an answer as to what happened with the leaking of this information. When are they going to get it? The failure to provide answers is adding insult to injury. The redress scheme has already excluded many people from it, including people who were born and lived in the institutions for less than six months. These people were profoundly affected by what happened to them and have been cut off from the scheme. It is divisive and is an attempt on the part of the Government to play a game of divide and rule. We heard fine speeches in the Dáil last week about violence against women and what the Government was going to do.

This was State violence against women. Why does the Government force these people to go out onto the streets and outside the gates of Leinster House in all weathers to campaign for justice on this issue? They need answers now.

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